After a hearty breakfast, and a run around the football pitch, a group of us headed to the BBC Proms, at the Royal Albert Hall, for an evening of Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Fauré.
The line-up was Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, by Debussy, followed by Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor, by Saint-Saëns, and then the Cantique de Jean Racine and Requiem by Fauré.
The only piece I thought I wasn’t familiar with was the Cello Concerto, but when it started up and got going, I realised I knew it. The only niggle I had was that some of the soloists were a little hard to hear, although the Pie Jesu could be heard clearly throughout the auditorium.
A thoroughly enjoyable evening, even with the inclusion of a Roman Catholic Mass for the dead in Latin!
Well, I was about to type in a blackmail note when this irritating paper clip thing popped up and announced: “Hi, I’m your office assistance; it looks like you’re starting to write a blackmail threat”. It then offered some helpful advice for different ways of blackmailing people, but also warned “Microsoft reserves the right to invoke its patents on 278 different blackmail techniques. Be warned that you may have to pay royalties on your selected blackmail technique to Microsoft …